Credit: The Associated Press

Credit: The Associated Press

Forensic police collect evidence in Piazza Colonna Square where a shooting took place outside Chigi Palace, premier's office, building at left, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013.

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ROME — Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery.

While pledging the country will do what the eurozone wants to improve its public finances and debt problem, the center-left leader has to placate his tense two-day-old coalition, including former premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives, whose support he needs for confirmation.